Who is the greatest "truth seeker" of our time?

Why would there be one greatest truth seeker?

GG Allin
He did prove that he was indeed the last true rock and roller

Some unknown, unsung physicist I suspect.

Noam Chomsky?

@cyndyh wins Fluther!

We all seek truth. One search for truth is no greater than another since all have the same goal.

@noel_leitmotif

Hm, who dedicates the most thought resources into understanding the world? Well I think that there’s a small group of them with each member being a truth-seeker about as much as any other in the group. I think they would be the philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians.

Stanton Friedman

RIchard Dawkins

I guess by the mere implication of your question that it might be YOU.

@seVen In topics, you forgot “Truthiness”.

GLENN BECK OBVIOUSLY HE IS WISE BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE AND CRIES TO DISPLAY IT

That would be me.

@AstroChuck: You’re Glen Beck?

@The_Compassionate_Heretic : Thank you for awarding me Fluther. But really. Where would I put it? :^>

Keats was right-on when he wrote ”...Beauty is truth, truth beauty…..”. Think about the creators of the pyramids… early mathematicians. Think about the beauty and design of tiles in the structures created in early Spain by muslims…....... early mathematicians. I could go on…....... but , think of Einstein, Minkowski, Feynman, etc…....

… of our time…. take your pick… physicist/mathematicians Stephen Hawking or Peter Higgs [ ... the God Particle].

@cyndyh- Ha!

@seVen – I know you want us to say that it takes Faith to believe that scientific discoveries are True, because we, as scientific laymen, cannot do the same research ourselves. However, I don’t believe this is the case. The beautiful thing about science is that it is measurable and reproduceable. It’s not like I have to have faith in the sun for it to rise tomorrow. It will rise in a predictable fashion, which has already been measured and documented, and we can watch it happen.

You could say the same thing about Faith, I guess, because I suspect you believe God is real, whether we believe in him or not. But religion is not measurable or reproduceable. A hundred people can pray the same prayer and get a hundred different results. You can’t reproduce someone’s religious epiphany like you can a scientifically designed experiment. You just have to take the minister at his Word. You have to have Faith that the copied, recopied, and copied-over document is really True to the original. You don’t have to do this in science, because there is a trail of Evidence that you don’t heed to have Faith in – you can do the experiment again yourself, if you like.

So, in short, “how can we prove he/she is right about all he/she says unless we ourselves investigate in sincere truth”? We can judge the credibility of the person making the assertion, view the evidence, and (to be blunt) check it against our inner B.S. detector. You may say that you have to do this with everything you hear from Holy men and Prophets as well, so I will turn your question back on you – how do you prove that what they say is true, without also investigating their claims?

T.S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Stephen Hawking

@RareDenver I loved this book “The Shining”
I’m just playin, foo

A few that I would offer as potential candidates are – John Pilger, Naiomi Klein, Peter Joseph and Barbara Marx Hubbard.
Look them up if you care to.

Me? You? We all seek the truth.

Kent Hovind?

….John Pilger, Naiomi Klein, Peter Joseph and Barbara Marx Hubbard…NOT… journalists! ... early history at it’s worst/best. ..

@virtualist Please explain.

@RareDenver lol

Jim Garrison

The Dali Lama?

The Buddha. I believe by his inherent definition, he lives only to seek truth.

Point of interest: There is currently a man considered to be The Buddha in India.

Steven Seagal is considered by the Buddists to be a reincarnation of Tulku.

I am, it’s me. it’s true

Me.
Because in the end it is how I lived with the life I lived.

Nostradamus. We can’t prove it because he’s dead. That sucks.

Nazi torturers

Fred Rogers

Why would a truth seeker necessarily be right about all he or she says? If this person has the truth, why is he or she still seeking? Are you really asking about a great truth finder? Isn’t a person who thinks he or she has found the truth necessarily and automatically wrong? Is the truth findable? How would we know? If a person really did find the truth, how would that person communicate it to people who hadn’t? And why would that person need to communicate it to those others who have it? Maybe the greatest truth finder knows enough to be silent. Or maybe seeking is truth.

@Jeruba Impressively salient. As per..
“truth finder”...great definition.
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Gautama Buddha

The Buddha is the greatest truth seeker of your time? You must be very old! ;)

@laureth When you’re right, you’re right.

OK…it would have to be J. Krishnamurti then.

boy do I feel like an idiot…!

Aww, I kid, I kid. :) They’re very good answers.

@laureth: No, I might have done the same had I caught one of your errors. You’re right, I was ridiculously way off in my response. (I guess it has something to do with reading correctly also, huh?)

Besides, had you not pointed out my mistake, I would have denied myself the opportunity to possibly introduce someone who may very well be the greatest philosopher/truth seeker of our time.